"Náttúra (Switch Remix)"

According to Vanity Fair, people in Iceland are now blowing up their own Range Rovers to collect car insurance. That's not a fanciful and almost unbelievably ironic apocalyptic setup-- it's happening on Earth as you read this. The recession is somehow realer than layoffs and Armani hobos. With her original "Náttúra"-- led by the geyser-gone-haywire drumming of Brian Chippendale-- Björk made a single to promote her new Earth-friendly, Iceland-saving initiative that noticeably avoided any sort of "Heal the World" flotsam. But while it was respectably unsentimental, it still sounded like another Volta disappointment; the song went for end-of-days rain dance but ended up with a floor clearing prog.

And then there was Switch, who provides a more accurate, dire, and contemporary soundtrack to the boom of bursting SUVs. His dubstep redo isn't breaking news for anyone familiar with Kala et. al., but it does offer a fine exit strategy for Björk's current artistic sand trap. (I can hear the M.I.A. redux catcalls, but at least M.I.A. was savvy enough to bury her sub-par Timbaland collaboration.) The demo reel remix makes the mistake of peaking too soon-- everything after the copy/paste vox at 2:30 is deflating denouement-- but it does enough up to that point. So: What do Icelanders have to start flaming for these two to meld minds for real?